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Proposed Employment Promotion Plan to deal with the impact of - COVID-19 Document forming part of the 2020 Employment Action Plan - Eurocities
Proposed Employment
Promotion Plan to deal
with the impact of
COVID-19
Document forming part of the 2020
Employment Action Plan
Proposed Employment Promotion Plan to deal with the impact of - COVID-19 Document forming part of the 2020 Employment Action Plan - Eurocities
Data for the current context
The effects of COVID-19

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Proposed Employment Promotion Plan to deal with the impact of - COVID-19 Document forming part of the 2020 Employment Action Plan - Eurocities
Data for the current context (the effects of COVID-19)
Registered unemployment

At the end of April there were 90,528 people registered as unemployed in Barcelona, surpassing the threshold of 90,000 people for the first time since 2015. The
indicator shows an increase for April (+4.7%) that is not as steep as in March

                                         21,481 more people were registered as unemployed in May than in
                                                                 December 2019

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Data for the current context (the effects of COVID-19)

       Activities that have generated and destroyed most employment (N). IVT2019– IVT2020. BCN

                                                                                                 62 Information Technology
                                                                                                 84 - Public Administration
                                                                                                 86 - Health activities

                                                                                                 88 – Social services activities

                                                                                                 96 – Other Personal services
                                                                                                 activities
                                                                                                 43 – Specific activities
                                                                                                 Construction
                                                                                                 81 – Services in buildings
                                                                                                 52 - Storage
                                                                                                 85 - Education
                                                                                                 55 - Accommodation services
                                                                                                 56 – Hotel and catering trade
                                                                                                 78 – Activities related to
                                                                                                 employment

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Proposed Employment Promotion Plan to deal with the impact of - COVID-19 Document forming part of the 2020 Employment Action Plan - Eurocities
Data for the current context (the effects of COVID-19)
Registered unemployment by age group

The increase in unemployment has been uneven among different age groups

                                   Source: Produced by the Fundació BCN FP using data from the Government of Catalonia's Employment and Productive Model
                                   Observatory.

                                       Young people between the ages of 20 and 34 have experienced the
                                                     sharpest increase in unemployment

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Proposed Employment Promotion Plan to deal with the impact of - COVID-19 Document forming part of the 2020 Employment Action Plan - Eurocities
Agreement for Barcelona and
CECORE
Joint mechanisms

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Proposed Employment Promotion Plan to deal with the impact of - COVID-19 Document forming part of the 2020 Employment Action Plan - Eurocities
Agreement for Barcelona and CECORE
The constitution of CECORE

                                                         Main objective

   To permanently establish a coordination mechanism for Barcelona City Council's economic response to the COVID-19 crisis.

                                                       Specific objectives

  01\ To define and execute a cross-         02\ To establish relations with all the     03\ To design a communications
  departmental municipal Covid-19            other administrations in order to           strategy focusing on transparency, with
  response strategy that involves the        maximise resources, share strategies and    clear messages that provide security
  municipal structure as a whole, in order   include the economic and social             and help to relaunch Barcelona's
  to tackle the post-crisis economic         stakeholders.                               international reputation.
  situation.

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Agreement for Barcelona and CECORE
Agreement for Barcelona

In addition to CECORE and the “City of Barcelona Economic Recovery Plan”, the “Agreement for Barcelona” is being convened. A grand agreement to promote the city
in all areas, fostering dialogue and consensus, together with political groups and economic. social, cultural and educational stakeholders.

                                                                                                                      General Economic Board

                                                                                              Focused on working with civil society and municipal political groups.
                                                                                              • First group: economic reactivation measures
                                                                                              • Second group: a new consensus among the seven groups for the
                                                                                                 municipal budget

                                                                                                 4 Work Committees will be convened, in order to have the
                                                                                                       Agreement for Barcelona ready in 2 months.

                                                                                                   Economic Committee                          Social Committee

                                                                                                  Urban Areas Committee                   Cultural Sector Committee

                                                                                                              *Complementary to other areas of governance

      They will be guided by the criteria of cohesion, equity, healthcare and care, a search for greater resilience and habitability, as well
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                                               as protecting Barcelona's international reputation.
Agreement for Barcelona and CECORE
CECORE has been structured into eight sectoral working groups, as a way of ensuring that the creation of the proposed measures is based on knowledge of the
sectors and that they respond to their real needs.
                 Business, Self-employed
                 people / entrepreneurs team                        Quality employment team                            Digital economy team

          Political          Technical Team:                 Political            Technical Team:                Political            Technical Team:
          contact:    • BASE: General Directorate,           contact:    • BASE: General Directorate,            contact:    • Manager's Office for Agenda 2030,
                        Executive Directorate for Business                 Executive Directorate for                           Digital Transformation and Sport
           Jaume        and Entrepreneurship                  Raquel       Employment                              Laia      • Manager's Office for Innovation
          Collboni    • Manager's Office for Economy and        Gil      • Management of Fundació BCN FP          Bonet        and Digital Transition
                        Taxation                                Commissioner Raquel Gil is the political                     • Commissioner for Innovation and
                      • MWC                                                                                                    Digital Transition
                                                              contact for the Quality Employment Team                        • Commissioner for Agenda 2030
                                                                                                                             • BASE
                 The Social and Solidarity and                      The City and Brand
                 Local Economy Team                                 Promotion Team                                     The Sports Reactivation Team

          Political          Technical Team:                 Political            Technical Team:                Political            Technical Team:
          contact:    • Directorate of Cooperative, Social   contact:    •   Area Manager’s Office               contact:    • Manager's Office for the Municipal
                        and Solidarity Economy                           •   Directorate of City Promotion                     Institute of Sport
           Álvaro     • BASE: Directorate of Socio-           Jaume      •   Head of the Barcelona Brand          David      • Area Manager's Office for Agenda
           Porro        economic Innovation and the          Collboni    •   BASE                                Escudé        2030, Digital Transformation and
                        Directorate of Local Development                                                                       Sport
                                                                                                                             • BASE
                                                                                                                             • BSM
                                                                                                                             • Directorate of City Promotion
                 Markets, Commerce, Catering                        Tourism and Creative
                 and Consumer Affairs Team                          Industries Team                                    Industry Team

          Political          Technical Team:                 Political             Technical Team:               Political            Technical Team:
          contact:    • Directorate of Commerce, Catering    contact:    • Directorate of Tourism and Creative   contact:    •   Area Manager’s Office
                        and Consumer Affairs                               Industries                                        •   Industrial Agreement Team
           Montse     • Barcelona Municipal Institute of      Xavier     • Department of Creative Industries      Jaume      •   Barcelona Activa
           Ballarín     Markets                               Marcè      • Management of DHUB                    Collboni    •   AMB
                      • BASE                                             • General Directorate of Tourism
                                                                           Consortium
                                                                         • BSM                                                                                      9
                                                                         • BASE
Agreement for Barcelona and CECORE
The 7 strategic objectives of the City of Barcelona's Economic Recovery Plan are:

                                                                   To make Barcelona a
                                                                    fairer, more resilient
                                                                   and more sustainable
                                                                             city

                          To define
                          transformative                                                              To maintain the city's
                          solutions with a                                                            business network

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                          metropolitan outlook

                          Barcelona is open to                                                         To protect jobs and
                        talent, investment and                                                         foster high-quality
                                       visitors                                                        employment

                                             To protect and
                                                                                             To prioritise the
                                         relaunch the city's
                                                                                             fostering of local
                                              international
                                                                                             consumption
                                                 reputation

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Economic Reactivation Plan
Methodology, scenarios and areas of
activity

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The coordination of responses and measures defined as a part of CECORE must be based on
the needs and the reality of the city in each period of the economic emergency

          0-3 months                      3-6 months                                                     6-12 months                      >12 months

                                                                   Factors conditioning
      Emergency plan                      Resilience                   the recovery
                                                                                                          Recovery                       Reinvention

 The implementation of            Management of the economic      To guarantee the safety of     Identification and               The creation of a new brand
 emergency measures that          impact and the creation of      city residents by means of a   understanding of what            focus that will become a key
                                                                  lockdown-exit protocol
 mitigate the healthcare          subsistence measures aimed                                     strategies for attracting and    factor in the reactivation. It
 impact of the current crisis,    at both businesses and the      Reopening borders and          developing business should       needs to refer to what
 such as the population           population, which make it       infrastructures for            be employed to help with the     Barcelona means, how it is
 lockdown, the provision of       possible to keep the            passengers (ports, airports)   reactivation of the various      perceived and what intrinsic
 extra teams for the healthcare   economy as active as possible   Provision of key resources     industrial activities that are   messages create the sufficient
 system, field hospitals, etc.    while the impact of the         for controlling possible       the driving force behind         desire and legitimacy to make
                                  healthcare crisis lasts.        secondary spikes: tests,       Barcelona's GDP. To identify     the city a destination, for
 The creation of immediate                                        machines, robots, access
 activation measures for the                                                                     the economic activity niches     either tourists or productive
                                                                  control in buildings.
 affected businesses.                                                                                                             investment
                                                                                                 that may strengthen
                                                                                                 Barcelona's economy.

                                                                                                                    Medium and long-term
                       Short-term measures                                                                               measures

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Economic development will be conditioned by the lockdown-exit plan, and the initiatives that
   are launched must make it possible to position ourselves in the best possible scenario
   (Scenario Barcelona)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                            12
                                   Zero hour                                             3 months                                 6 months
                                                                                                                                                                                                                           months
                                                          Emergency-Plan                                                                                                                                                                      Reinvention
               COVID-19 crisis                         Emergency
                                                            Phase plan                                    Resilience
                                                                                                         Resilience Phase                                                 Recovery
                                                                                                                                                                      Recuperation Phase                                                      Reinvention
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Phase
             The healthcare crisis                                                                                                                                                                                                      The reinvention of certain
                                                     Measures to halt the slump                                                                            Progressive economic recovery until pre-crisis
           causes social distancing                                                                                                                                                                                                     sectors that will promote
                                                     and reactivate the inactive                   Measures to favour growth                                levels are attained with consumption during
                    and                                                                                                                                                                                                                growth and position the city
                                                               sectors                            and rapid economic recovery                                            the Christmas period
            economic stagnation                                                                                                                                                                                                                 as a leader
                                                                                                                                                                                                                        The reinvention of
                                                                                                                                                                                                                        certain sectors and
                                                                                                                                                                      Getting back to                                   acceleration of
                                                                                                                                                                      the starting                                      growth to improve                Scenario
                                                                                                                                                                                                    Stagnation of       competitiveness
Evolution of                                                                                                                                                          point, having                 growth                                               Barcelona
                                                                                                                                                                      alleviated the
 economic                                                                                                                                                             effects of the
  activity                                                                                                                                                            healthcare crisis

               Very quick                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Natural
               destruction of                                                                                                           Acceleration of
               the economy,                                                                                                             the recovery as                                                                                                  scenario
               due to the                   Lockdown-exit plan                                                                          sectors are
                                                                                     Reopening borders                                  progressively
               healthcare crisis                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Pessimistic scenario
                                                                                                                                        reactivated

                                                                          Start of the                        Food    La Mercè    Barcelona               Christmas                                                                                        Start of the
                                                                        summer season                          Fair    Festival   Marathon                                                MWC ‘21       Easter 2021
                                                                                                                                                          Campaign                                                                                       summer season

                                                                                                                                              SCWEC
                                                                                                                                                ‘20
                                   Deceleration of                                           Activation of
                                   economic                                                  economic-
                                   destruction                                               revitalisation
                                                     The end of                              measures
                                                     destruction and
                                                     the beginning of
                                                     recovery

           Feb ’20       Mar ’20        Apr ’20       May ’20       June ’20     July ’20     Aug ’20           Sep ’20      Oct ’20      Nov ’20         Dec ’20      Jan ’21            Feb ’21    Mar ’21          Apr ’21      May ’21         June ’21    July ’21

                                                                                                                                                                                   Caption:
                                                                                                                                                                                                    Factors
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Stages of
                                                                                                                                                                                                    conditioning                 Major events in
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              economic
                                                                                                                                                                                                    recovery and                 Barcelona
                                                                                                                                                                                                    context
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              development   13
Economic development will be conditioned by the lockdown-exit plan and the opening of
   borders. In this context, the initiatives that are launched must make it possible to position
   ourselves in the best possible scenario (Scenario Barcelona)
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                                      Zero hour                                             3 months                                  6 months                                                                                  months
                                                             Emergency-Plan                                                                                                                                                                       Reinvention
                 COVID-19 crisis                          Emergency
                                                               Phase plan                                    Resilience
                                                                                                            Resilience Phase                                                     Recovery
                                                                                                                                                                             Recuperation Phase                                                   Reinvention
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Phase
                 The healthcare crisis                  Measures to halt the slump                                                                                Progressive economic recovery until pre-crisis                            The reinvention of certain
               causes social distancing                 and reactivate the inactive                   Measures to favour growth                                    levels are attained with consumption during                              sectors that will promote
                        and                                       sectors                            and rapid economic recovery                                               the Christmas period.                                       growth and position the city
                economic stagnation                                                                                                                                                                                                                 as a leader

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Economic impact
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  of the measures
                                                                                                                                                                                                                            The reinvention of
                                                                                                                                                                                                                            certain sectors and
                                                                                                                                                                                                                            acceleration of
                                                                                                                                                                              Getting back to                               growth to improve                Scenario
                                                                                                                                                                                                        Stagnation of       competitiveness
Evolution of                                                                                                                                                                  the starting                                                                   Barcelona
                                                                                                                                                                                                        growth
                                                                                                                                                                              point, having
 economic                                                                                                                                                                     alleviated the
  activity                                                                                                                                                                    effects of the
                                                                                                                                                                              healthcare crisis

                  Very quick                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Natural
                  destruction of                                                                                                               Acceleration of
                  the economy,                                                                                                                 the recovery as                                                                                               scenario
                  due to the                  Lockdown-exit plan                                                                               sectors are
                                                                                        Reopening borders                                      progressively
                  healthcare crisis                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Pessimistic scenario
                                                                                                                                               reactivated
                                                                                                                                     Barcelo
                                                                             Start of the                        Food    La Mercè      na                        Christmas                                                                                     Start of the
                                                                           summer season                          Fair    Festival   Marath                                                   MWC ‘21       Easter 2021
                                                                                                                                                                 Campaign                                                                                    summer season
                                                                                                                                       on
                                                                                                                                                     SCWEC
                                                                                                                                                       ‘20
                                      Deceleration of                                           Activation of
                                      economic                                                  economic-
                                      destruction                                               revitalisation
                                                        The end of                              measures
                                                        destruction and
                                                        the beginning of
                                                        recovery

           Feb ’20          Mar ’20        Apr ’20       May ’20       June ’20     July ’20     Aug ’20           Sep ’20      Oct ’20          Nov ’20         Dec ’20      Jan ’21        Feb ’21     Mar ’21          Apr ’21      May ’21         June ’21    July ’21

                                                                                                                                                                                          Caption:
                                                                                                                                                                                                        Factors
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Stages of
          The set of measures to be implemented aim to turn the economic-recovery curve quickly and                                                                                                     conditioning
                                                                                                                                                                                                        recovery and
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Major events in
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Barcelona
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  economic
          sustainably.                                                                                                                                                                                  context
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In order to achieve the most favourable scenario, the various CECORE teams have proposed
   measures that cover these areas of action:

          Subsidies,
          financial aid
          and                             Training and                     Promotion,
          funding                         advice                           communicatio                   Economic
                                                                           n and                          development                   Regulatory and
        Measures for businesses                                            connectivity                   tools                         administrative
        will be activated, with the     Attempts will be made to
        aim of increasing their         increase training for both       There will be campaigns to                                     changes
        liquidity and avoiding          employees and                    re-establish Barcelona's       New tools will be
        damage to the city's            businesses, so that              reputation, geared             established that will make    The various regulations,
        productive fabric due to        improved competitiveness         towards reactivating           it possible to create
                                                                                                                                      administrative processes and
        cash-flow problems.             can accelerate the               tourism and transmitting       synergies between the
                                        economic recovery.               confidence to the general      city's business network       service provision for the
        Financial mechanisms will                                                                                                     general public and businesses
        also be activated in order to   The social focus will be         public in order to             and socio-economic
                                                                         stimulate consumption.         sectors, in order to favour   will be adapted, with the aim
        ensure stability during the     maintained, in order to
                                                                                                        organic growth.               of making certain procedures
        recovery period.                minimise the impact on           New events that revitalise
                                                                                                                                      more simple and flexible so
                                        vulnerable groups.               the life of the city will be   Specific development
                                                                                                                                      that economic reactivation
                                                                         coordinated.                   plans will be drawn up.
                                                                                                                                      becomes more agile.

The defined measures
will focus on responding                Digital                      Industry                 Small economy             Social economy          Visiting economy
to the needs of the
following       economic
sectors:
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Actions of the Employment
Promotion Plan for tackling the
impact of COVID-19
Review of the Employment Action Plan and
the Proposed 2020-2021 Employment
Promotion Plan

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The 7 groups of measures in the Employment Promotion Plan for tackling the impact of
COVID-19
Initially, the 2020 Employment Action Plan had 4 strategic lines and 30 lines of action. Due to the emergency situation and the current and foreseen negative impacts
on the job market in coming months, the actions and priorities have been reorganised into 7 large groups of measures:

      01\                Governance and coordination actions

      02\                Support, guidance and assistance for people who are unemployed or in an insecure situation

      03\                Support for highly-vulnerable groups

      04\                Fostering training and improving human capital

      05\                Promoting high-quality employment and recruitment

      06\                Fostering youth employment

      07\               Local economic development and attention to neighbourhoods with special difficulties

                             Priorities will be reformulated, actions will be reinforced and new measures will be proposed

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2020 Employment Action Plan
Actions according to the strategic lines of measures

The 2020 Employment Action Plan contained 4 strategic lines and 30 lines of action. Due to the emergency situation and the current and foreseen negative impacts on
the job market in coming months, the actions and priorities have been reorganised into 7 large groups of measures:

                                                          2020 Municipal Employment Action Plan

                                                                          86 actions

  Governance and         Support, guidance and     Support for highly-    Fostering training and   Promoting high-quality    Fostering youth          Local economic
coordination actions   assistance for people who    vulnerable groups       improving human           employment and          employment             development and
                        are unemployed or in an                                   capital               recruitment                                     attention to
                           insecure situation                                                                                                      neighbourhoods with
                                                                                                                                                    special difficulties

        24                        8                        8                       9                       13                     11                      13

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Projected economic development including the identified measures

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                                                                                                                                                                                                                              months
                                       Zero hour                                            3 months                                  6 months
                                                           Emergency-Plan                                                                                                                                                                       Reinvention
                 COVID-19 crisis                          Emergency
                                                               Phase plan                                    Resilience
                                                                                                            Resilience Phase                                                      RecoveryPhase
                                                                                                                                                                                Recuperation                                                    Reinvention
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Phase
                  The healthcare crisis                  Measures to halt the slump                                                                             Progressive economic recovery until pre-crisis                         The reinvention of certain sectors
                causes social distancing                 and reactivate the inactive                     Measures to favour growth                               levels are attained with consumption during                             that will promote growth and
                         and                                       sectors                              and rapid economic recovery                                          the Christmas period.                                        position the city as a leader      Scenario
                 economic stagnation                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Barcelona
                                                                                                                                                          New line of
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         SIOB: Virtual
                                                                                                                                                                                                          Responsible                   Office +Virtual
                                                                                                                                                         subsidies for
                                                                                                                                                                                                             public
                                                                                                                                                          recruitment
                                                                                                                                                                                                          procurement                      Campus
                                                                                                                                                                         Neighbourh
                                                                                                                                                                                        Active
Evolution of                                                                                                                                                              ood Plan -   reskilling
 economic                                                                                                                                                                Employmen
  activity                                                                                                                                                                    t                                                                                              Natural
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             scenario
                                                                                                                                          Map of        Emergency plan
                                                                                                                                       resources and   vulnerable groups
                                            Lockdown-exit                                                      Mk Places Plus             training
                                                                                        Reopening frontiers                     Activa Futur
                                                                                                                                                                                          Comprehensive
                                                  plan                                                                          2020-2021                                                                                                                                     Pessimistic
                                                                                                                                                                                          sectoral projects
                                                                             Start of the                          Food La Mercè Barcelona
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              scenario
                                                                                                                                                                                                                Easter 2021                                 Start of the
                                                                           summer season                            Fair Festival Marathon                   Christmas                          MWC ‘21                                                   summer season

                                                                                                 III Employment SOC [Catalan
                                                                                                       Fair    Unemployment
                                           Reinforcing                 Citizen Help and         Active                                            BCN Integra        City Agreement
                                                                                                                   Office]
                                        employment-rights                 Information         Classroom                                            2020-2030            for Quality
                                                                                                                 Agreement
                                             offices    Intermediation      Services                                                                                  Employment
                                                         selection for   (Call Centre)
                                                                                        Reprogramming                                               Agreement between the Barcelona Metropolitan
                                                         unemployed
                                                                                             PICs                                      Subsidies for Area (AMB) and Barcelona Provincial Council
                                                            people
                                                                                                                     Emergency         “We promote
                                                                                                                       Youth           what you do”
                                                                                                                    Employment
                                                                                                                        Plan

      Feb ’20                           Apr ’20                                              July ’20                                  Nov ’20                                                                                 May ’21                                  July ’21

        Caption:
                        Factors
                        conditioning                     Major events in
                        recovery and                     Barcelona                  Subsidies,    Training and   Promotion,       Tools for       Regulatory and
                        context                                                 financial aid and    advice    communication     economic         administrative                                                                                                               19
                                                                                     funding                   and connectivity development          changes
2020-21 Employment Promotion Plan
The 2020-21 Employment Action Plan places emphasis and priority on actions that focus on the following priority groups, identifying those suffering a major
negative impact from the pandemic and areas that have an opportunity for future growth.

                                                                      The most affected groups
                                In the City of Barcelona, the
                                younger age groups have
                                                                                                                              People      with   more      basic
                                experienced       the     greatest                                           People           qualifications (compulsory and
                  Young
                                increases    in    unemployment                                               with a
                  people                                                                                                      higher secondary education) and
                                rates, which rise to over 40% for                                           basic level       Higher Vocational Training have
                                people between the ages of 20                                                   of            suffered the greatest loss of jobs.
                                and 29.                                                                     education

                                Women           have        greater
                                representation in activity sectors                                                            Activities that have generated
                                that the crisis has shown to be                                               People          the      most     unemployment:
                  Women         essential, but these jobs do not                                            working in        Domestic       staff,     retailers,
                                always get recognition or have                                              the service       recreational             activities,
                                decent conditions. One of the                                                 sector          construction,      hotels      and
                                main objectives must be to                                                                    activities connected to transport.
                                improve this context and extend
                                their participation in others.
                                                             Opportunity for growth

                                             People
                                                                     The healthcare crisis has especially affected employment in
                                           working in
                                                                     sectors that were, are, or could be strategic in Barcelona:
                                            strategic
                                                                     tourism, commerce, culture, digital, green/circular,
                                             sectors
                                                                     health/bio…
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Details of the new measures

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Details of the new measures
                                                                                                                               Emergenc
                                                                                                                                           3 months   6 months   12 months
                                                                                                                                y plan
Detailed description
                                                                                                                                                       1.700.000 €
2020-2021 Emergency Youth Employment Plan                                                                                                              + 500.000 €
Part of the Fostering Quality Youth Employment Plan and in agreement with the stakeholders that are included in a set of measures which
complement the actions that are already planned. It aims to improve professional qualifications and job placement among young people.

                              Main characteristics                                                                     Specific actions

             Set of complementary measures for actions that are already

                                                                                                              1
             established in the Fostering Quality Youth Employment Plan
                                                                                                                         Made-to-measure training plans
                                                                                                                         in accordance with the needs of
             For the purpose of improving young people’s professional
             qualifications and job placement.
                                                                                                                         sectors and businesses

             Reinforcing singular projects planned through the SOC

             There are plans for made-to-measure training actions to meet the
             needs of sectors and businesses, as well as personalised
             mentoring and assistance actions
                                                                                                            2         Mentoring actions
                                                                                                                      with collaborating companies.

                                  Target group

               Young unemployed people and young workers who don't
               meet Youth Guarantee requirements
                                                                                                         3          Personalised assistance
                                                                                                                    and monitoring actions in the business
                                                                                                                    environment.

               650 people attended

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Details of the new measures                                                                                                         Emergenc
                                                                                                                                                3 months   6 months   12 months
                                                                                                                                     y plan
Detailed description

Market Place Plus                                                                                                                                               300.000 €
The development of online formats and the rescaling of Barcelona Activa's Market Place services, which were formerly delivered in-person, and
sectoral recruitment events.

                                Main characteristics                                                                     Market Place Plus

             The measure aims to provide a response to the urgent need for
             recruiting workers

             To cover jobs in municipal companies and areas that offer
             essential services to the general public
                                                                                                                                Urgent
             The measure aims to rescale the service, create new procedures and                                               recruitment
             modify the tools available to the City Council                                                                      needs

             To continue offering the service, with an increase in the volume of
             both job offers and the number of vacancies in those offers

                                    Target group

                Unemployed people in Barcelona and its Metropolitan Area,
                mainly participants in employment programmes.                               Developing online           Rescaling Marketplace         Sectoral recruitment
                                                                                                formats                        services                      events

                10,000 people

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Details of the new measures                                                                                                         Emergenc
                                                                                                                                                  3 months   6 months     12 months
                                                                                                                                     y plan
Detailed description

Activa Futur 2020-2021                                                                                                                                          1.500.000 €
An emergency programme for responding to the expected increase in people needing attention, based on a blended-model methodology,
with a combination of virtual and in-person guidance actions concerning employment, reskilling and support for job placement, starting with a
preliminary emotional-support action.

                               Main characteristics
                                                                                                                        Emergency programme

             Emergency programme based on a blended-model methodology

                                                                                                                                     Virtual and in-person actions
             Complementary to the SOC
                                                                                                                            03       concerning guidance, reskilling and
                                                                                                                                     job-placement support
             Based on identification, referral and swift,

                                                                                                                                    02
             flexible attention                                                                                                                 Preliminary emotional-
                                                                                                                                                support action
             Flexible access channels for affected persons: Employment
             website; 010; Community Plans, Healthcare Consortium – CAPs.
             Barcelona Employment Offices

                                                                                                                                               01
                                                                                                                                                       Identification, referral
                                                                                                                                                       and swift, flexible
                                   Target group                                                                                                        attention

                Priority is given to unemployed people with special
                difficulties, especially those who are unemployed, over the
                age of 40 and with low educational levels.

                4,000 people attended.

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                                                                                                                                    Emergenc
                                                                                                                                               3 months   6 months   12 months
                                                                                                                                     y plan
Detailed description

Emergency employment plan for especially vulnerable groups
                                                                                                                                                            500.000 €
The development of employment plans aimed at improving professional qualifications and the insertion of people with disabilities.

                               Main characteristics

              Specific emergency plans for vulnerable groups

              Improving the professional qualifications and insertion of people
              belonging to vulnerable groups

              Aimed at improving the insertion of people with different
              capacities

                                   Target group

                Unemployed people with disabilities in priority sectors that
                are potential job creators

                n/d

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                                                                                                                                   Emergenc
                                                                                                                                              3 months   6 months   12 months
                                                                                                                                    y plan
Detailed description

New line of Subsidies for recruitment                                                                                                                     4.000.000 €
Subsidies of up to €8,000 for new employment contracts that last for at least 6 months (the subsidy amount may not exceed 80% of the annual
cost of the worker's salary).

                                Main characteristics                                                                 Subsidies for recruitment

             This is a new line of financial aid, with up to €8,000 in recruitment
             subsidies
                                                                                                                                    For new contracts
             Aimed at creating new employment contracts that last for at
             least 6 months

             This is a measure that is offered directly to self-employed people,
             SMEs and shops that can be sectoralised                                                              A minimum duration of 6
                                                                                                                                 months
             The subsidy amount may not exceed 80% of the annual cost of the
             worker's salary
                                                                                                Without exceeding 80% of the
                                                                                              annual cost of the worker's salary
                                    Target group

                Direct: Self-employed people, SMEs and Shops. I
                Unemployed people under the age of 30 or older than 45.                         Up to a maximum of
                                                                                                            €8,000
                500 new contracts

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                                                                                                                               Emergenc
                                                                                                                                             3 months     6 months    12 months
                                                                                                                                y plan
Detailed description

Comprehensive Sectoral Projects                                                                                                                         4.500.000 €
Deployment of sectoral projects with a new focus that has a greater impact on, and connection with, the city's strategic sectors, to be
established in the corresponding areas in cooperation with sectors that create jobs.

                               Main characteristics                                                           Comprehensive sectoral projects

             Plans based on sectoral projects that focus on the impact on, and
             connection with, strategic economic sectors                                        There are three specific projects (for illustrative purposes,
                                                                                                        aligned with the city's strategic sectors).
             Cooperation between the City Council and the sectors that create
             jobs in the city                                                                                                             Barcelona Brilla
                                                                                                                                          [Barcelona Shines]
             Exploring new methodological formats in accordance with the
             health recommendations issued by the authorities                                                                             Energy, efficiency, solar
                                                                                                                                          installations, building
             This covers potential projects such as: “BCN Shines” “BCN Cares" i                                                           renovations
             “BCN Commerce”
                                                                                                                        Barcelona
                                                                                   Barcelona Comerç                                                Barcelona Cuida
                                                                                                                         Shines
                                                                                   [Barcelona Commerce]                                            [Barcelona Cares]
                                  Target group                                     Animators, last-mile                                            Expanding home care
                                                                                   delivery,
               Unemployed people, priority sectors that are potential job          e-commerce
               creators                                                                                       Barcelona          Barcelona
                                                                                                              Commerce             Cares
               1,000 people

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                                                                                                                                               Emergenc
                                                                                                                                                          3 months     6 months   12 months
                                                                                                                                                y plan
Detailed description

Neighbourhood plan – Employment                                                                                                                                      4.500.000 €
The objective of the Neighbourhood Plan is recruitment, with the necessary diversification and multiplicity of collaborating businesses. This
means the hiring of apprentices by industrial companies, SMEs, shops and/or self-employed people in the city’s neighbourhoods.

                                Main characteristics                                                       Mixed training and work-experience programme
                                                                                                   A 9-month programme combining training and work
             Local employment teams are created to act as “employment
             tutors” and to refer people to existing public resources or facilitate                experience, agreed with sectors and trade associations:
             access to other city resources, such as the validation of studies
                                                                                                       2-3 months
             Promoting the regularisation of the plans, expanding and scaling
             them to all city neighbourhoods with two editions, each lasting 2                    Preliminary Phase            Prior training in sectors (grant)
             years.
             Establishing a mixed programme of training and work experience           ,
             where the people concerned should be given a contract once the                        Once the training is completed and the minimum objectives have
             prior training programme has concluded.                                                           been achieved, the people should be hired:
             The sessions may be part-time or full-time, depending on the
             availability of the person and business concerned                                         3 months                        3 months

                                    Target group                                                       1st phase                      2nd phase                  3rd phase

                                                                                                  Recruitment by the           Session* run fifty-fifty      Inclusion in the
                Unemployed people in the neighbourhoods included in the                              programme                  by the programme           company's personnel
                Neighbourhood Plan                                                                                               and the business

                300 people attended                                                             *The sessions may be part-time or full-time.

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                                                                                                                                           Emergenc
                                                                                                                                                         3 months     6 months   12 months
                                                                                                                                            y plan
Detailed description

Active Reskilling Programme                                                                                                                                         1.500.000 €
Online and in-person technical-professional training actions, as a tool for increasing the employability of workers in the following strategic
sectors of the city.

                                Main characteristics                                                                           Active Reskilling
                                                                                                    Training actions (online and in-person) in the following strategic
              Developing technical and professional training actions                                                             sectors:

              Employability tool in two formats, online and in person

              Aimed at workers, in order to cover professional profiles in high                                             Industry 4.0         Sport
              demand

              With the objective of strategic sectors: Industry 4.0, creative and
                                                                                                             Creative and                                   Healthcare
              cultural industries, green and circular economy, tourism, sports,
                                                                                                               cultural                                        and
              healthcare and care, blue economy and local commerce                                            industries            Training                  care
                                                                                                                                    actions
                                     Target group

                Unemployed people in Barcelona and its Metropolitan Area, as                                     Green                                        Blue
                well as trade associations, professional associations and                                       economy                                     Economy

                high-quality professional training centres in the city.
                1,000 people attended                                                                                                           Local
                                                                                                                              Tourism
                                                                                                                                              commerce

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